••• Ticking with style
SCOTTSDALE, AZ - Clocks are back. They’re trendy, functional and classic . . . and they’re big enough to crush you if you don’t move fast. Local home furnishing stores are blooming with swinging hands, designer faces and timepieces up to 32 inches across. "We’ve seen it as a trend, in just this past year and a half," says Lori Henaughan, a supervisor at the Great Indoors in Chandler. She’s watched .. (read more)
••• £1Million Clock Missing in Mansion Burglary
SCOTLAND- Property tycoon Harry Hyams lost a £1million clock in Britain's biggest house raid, it emerged yesterday. The antique, believed to be late 17th century and English-made, is understood to be the most valuable single item in the burglars' £30million haul.. (read more)
••• Turning back time on Hampton’s town clock
HAMPTON, NH- "HAMPTON - Harvey Webber said he would like to finish work on restoring the town clock, which was almost destroyed in a 1990 fire at the Odd Fellows Building, by April. Pieces of the clock were rusted and twisted when Webber brought them to his antique ship in Hampton a year and a half ago, but that was the least of the clock’s problems. (read more)
••• As time goes by, local clock master keeps time pieces ticking
NAPLES, FL- "I came here because Mr. Anderson has a good reputation," said Jim Miller as he handed his calendar clock to Jack Anderson, owner of Clockmaster of Naples, who had repaired an old family clock that Miller's wife had brought in. (read more)
••• Bristol artisan replicates grandfather clock for Clinton library
BRISTOL, RI - Antique tools lie strewn about Robert Materne's work space. Ebony wood and hand-made inlays are among the many materials scattered throughout his chaotic, yet systematic, shop. An eight-foot masterpiece of perfection towers above (read more)
••• Patek Philippe watches set records at Antiquorum auction
JCK - King of Prussia,PA,United States - Two Patek Philippe watches set world records for timepieces sold at auction. In a thrilling auction finish, the Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, fetched (read more)
••• School of Horology expands
Columbia Ledger - Columbia,PA,USA - The National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors expanded its School of Horology, 514 Poplar St., after receiving a $200,000 grant through the ...(read more)
••• Ticking Away: Daylight Savings time explained
The Record-Courier, NV... Bartels owns about 60 antique clocks, ranging in age from a clock madein 1690, before George Washington was born, to a "fairly new" piece made in the mid-1800s ... (read more)
••• Losing Time
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX... A recent survey showed that US watchmakers' median age is about 61; it will soon be up to the likes of the 10 students enrolled in the 16-month horology ... (read more)
••• Clockmaker's trade rare as antique timepieces
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA - ... In 1976 there were 95 horology and jewelry students. When I visited the school again in the mid-'80s, it had only five." (Horology ...(read more) |